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Dark Side of the Moon

Black diamond Mount Snow, VT

Steepest pitch20°
Vertical212 ft
Length941 ft
Average pitch13°
FacesE
Top3,453 ft

Dark Side of the Moon drops 212 vertical feet over 941 feet of skiing, with a steepest pitch of 20° about 730 feet below the top. That's steeper than 7% of the 4,740 black diamond runs we've measured in North America, and the 49th steepest of 86 named runs at Mount Snow. It faces east.

How well Dark Side of the Moon holds snow

Snow preservationBelow average

Facing east at an average 13°, Dark Side of the Moon gets about 110% of the winter sun that flat ground at Mount Snow does, December through March. That's sunnier than 80% of the runs we've measured, and the 15th sunniest named run at Mount Snow. Its top sits at 3,450 feet.

Angled toward the low winter sun, it bakes: powder turns heavy soon after a storm, and in spring it softens early in the day and refreezes hard overnight. Shading from ridges and trees isn't counted yet.

Dark Side of the Moon profile

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Where it is on the mountain

Runs like Dark Side of the Moon elsewhere

Nearby at Mount Snow

Measured by ZRankings from 1-meter USGS lidar. Steepest pitch is the steepest stretch of about 50 vertical feet along the skiable line. Run lines come from OpenStreetMap and can sit a little off the skied path.